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Sarcastic Response to News Claim That Rice Hurts Climate

This meme features a screenshot of a verified post from The Straits Times with the headline 'Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too' paired with an image of a hand holding chopsticks picking rice from a bowl of white rice. Below the news post, a sarcastic comment from user Mich reads: 'Damn, I was gonna blame the billionaires with private jets, but sure—let’s go after my lunch.' The humor comes from the sarcastic pushback against climate change discourse that shifts responsibility for emissions from high-polluting wealthy individuals and corporations, who have a vastly larger carbon footprint, to the everyday dietary choices of ordinary people.
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Damn, I was gonna blame the billionaires with private jets, but sure—let’s go after my lunch.

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Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too.

Overview

This meme features a screenshot of a verified post from The Straits Times with the headline 'Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too' paired with an image of a hand holding chopsticks picking rice from a bowl of white rice. Below the news post, a sarcastic comment from user Mich reads: 'Damn, I was gonna blame the billionaires with private jets, but sure—let’s go after my lunch.' The humor comes from the sarcastic pushback against climate change discourse that shifts responsibility for emissions from high-polluting wealthy individuals and corporations, who have a vastly larger carbon footprint, to the everyday dietary choices of ordinary people.

Origin notes

The original news snippet is from The Straits Times, a major Singaporean English-language newspaper. The meme combines the news post with a popular sarcastic user comment, and was circulated on 9Gag as the provided source information indicates. It is widely shared to criticize out-of-touch climate narratives that target regular people instead of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.

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